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Quotes About Elusive

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.
~ Eknath Easwaran
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?
~ Angela Carter
Giant squid aren't rare. Based on the number of beaks that have been found in the stomachs of sperm whales, it's thought that there are actually millions of them in the ocean, and yet, we haven't seen them.
~ Edith Widder
Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever been or ever was meant to be eludes us, and it eludes us because we want it to.
~ Steve Erickson
Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.
~ Dara Horn
Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing
~ Robert Dugoni
Kant's position is extremely subtle – so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
~ Roger Scruton
Any of the others can clutch a phantom!
~ Roger Zelazny
I grasped after the ghost of a memory. It vanished.
~ Roger Zelazny
He's never there, and yet he's always there
~ Ron Chernow
A low thrum in his gut. Love. What is the measure of such a thing? Love, or the word love, is like an elusive jungle bird that because it is so durable has thousands of mimics and camouflaged neighbors.
~ Lawrence Krauser
Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be?
~ Linda Lael Miller
Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.
~ Philip Yancey
He was always reading. With his street kid clients, the popular belief was that he was searching for an elusive gap that existed somewhere in his books, hidden between lines or letters. One that would allow him, once and for all, to crawl inside the pages and disappear.
~ Alex Garland
For the time being the 'gay gene' remains elusive. Which is not to say that it won't be found at some point.
~ Douglas Murray
There's always something that you can't pin down with words. Words fall flat all the time — look at the word dust around you.
~ Dr. SunWolf
Everything in life is elusive.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
What is the difference between project management and project leadership? Although there is an elusive line between them, the core difference is that management deals with complexity, whereas leadership deals with change.
~ Jim Highsmith
Happiness is often elusive and fleeting. There are three elements that, when combined, always result in happiness. Like a three-legged stool, they work in tandem. Any two of the three
~ Jim Stovall
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
~ Joan Rivers
I am warned of evils that await me," continued Vivaldi, musing; "of events that are regularly fulfilled; the being who warns me, crosses my path perpetually, yet, with the cunning of a demon, as constantly eludes my grasp, and baffles my pursuit! It is incomprehensible, by what means he glides thus away from my eye, and fades, as if into air, at my approach! He is repeatedly in my presence, yet is never to be found!
~ Ann Radcliffe
D?vains v?rietis… K? zivs… Kas vienm?r aizlok?s un izsl?d no rok?m…
~ Anna Gavalda
My agents have me in the Actors' Protection Program. It seems to be working very well. Nobody can find me.
~ Teri Garr